Location:
Room 117 at the Belk Visual Arts Center
315 North Main Street
Davidson. , NC
United States

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lecture

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Ongoing excavations at a Late Woodland (ca. AD 750-1000) mound site near Natchez trying to understand the history and function of early platform mounds in the centuries immediately preceding the emergence of Mississippian cultures.

Classical archeologist Sarah C Murray of Stanford University, will bring to life the 18th century era of the grand tour of Europe with her lecture: Grand Tour Travelers in Context: A Digital Humanities Approach to 18th Century Social and Intellectual Networks on September 11, 2012 at 7:30 pm at the Davidson College Visual Arts Center, Room 117 Main Street Davidson, NC 28036 .

The talk is sponsored by the Central Carolinas (Charlotte) Society of the Archeological Institute of America and Davidson College is free and open to the public.

On April 21 the Central Carolinas Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Department of Classics at Davidson College will celebrate the ancient Roman festival of Parilia in Davidson NC! This annual festival honored both the 'birthday' of the city Rome and Pales, an agricultural goddess.

Thanks to a grant from the Archaeological Institute of America, there will be an epic celebration of the Parilia. This celebration will include Roman rituals, fresco painting according to the ancient Roman methods, and good food.

A lecture by Dr. David Moore (Warren Wilson College) “Exploring Joara: Native American Chiefs and Spanish Armies in the 16th century North Carolina Piedmont”. The lecture will be followed by a reception.

Hilary Becker and Ruth Beeston, both of Davidson College, will present a lecture entitled “Roman Rainbow: a Chemical and Archaeological Investigation of an Ancient Pigment Shop” in which they will discuss ongoing archaeological and chemical research on pigments recovered from the Area Sacra di Sant'Omobono in Rome, Italy. Becker is visiting assistant professor of Classics at Davidson and Beeston is professor of Chemistry.